82 examples of ill-humoured in sentences
"I dare say," Morriston replied with a laugh of ill-humour.
All my ill-humour had gone, and I was now in a hurry to set myself right with my conscience.
I hope my uncle will not come from beyond seas any more;" but I said this very softly, and had a kind of notion that I was in a perverse ill-humoured fit.
Perhaps that is another reason why she is ill-humoured.
" His ill-humour lasted until the night of the "Lead," which, largely owing to the presence of a sporting fishmonger who had done well at the races that day, and some of his friends, realized a sum far beyond the expectations of the hard-working promoters.
" His ill-humour lasted until the night of the "Lead," which, largely owing to the presence of a sporting fishmonger who had done well at the races that day, and some of his friends, realized a sum far beyond the expectations of the hard-working promoters.
My uncle made me an ill-humoured gesture.
I was afraid of Babet, I was ill-humoured, and now I am jealous, for I can see very well that I shall never be able to love you as much as she does, 'Tell him,' she repeated to me yesterday, blushing, 'that if he gets killed, I shall go and throw myself into the river at the spot where he gave me to drink.'
But Linforth's ill-humour promised her a way of escape.
Annas was a thin ill-humoured-looking old man, with a scraggy beard.
The Grand Duke Cosimo before his death in 1574, and the Grand Duke Francesco, were alike irritated by Bracciano's cool, calculating conduct; and both upheld Isabella against her husband's ill-humour and harsh judgments.
Francesco met her ill-humour with a frown.
Most men have a tendency to vent ill-humour on some one, and they generally do it on one whom they deem to be worse than themselves.
But the moment I stated my intention to mop up Uspenkie he fell into line, and forgot all about his previous ill-humour.
As it was, he could only say: "Don't talk such nonsense!" "Ho," said sheand indeed she was shamefully ill-humoured today"nonsense, indeed!
Mr. Anthony worked himself up into a thorough ill-humour again, and swore at his clerks, because they asked him questions.
Or better: "Impatience, unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal.
Thus I sat in burning discontent and ill-humour until soothed by the scent of roses and the gleam of soft spring sunshine which streamed in through my open window.
Such a beau of beaux, no doubt he was annoyed that an insignificant little country bumpkin should not be flattered by his patronage, or probably he thought me rude or ill-humoured.
Sickness, Ill-humour, and Idleness, will have robbed him of a great Share of that Space we ordinarily call our Life.
They had always suffered from the occasional scarcity due to the ill-humour of the Spanish King or the natural failure of the Sicilian harvest.
"In ordinary life few men die of ill-humour; he who is annoyed gives vent to it, and recovers his equanimity.
Herder could be charmingly prepossessing and brilliant, but he could just as easily turn an ill-humoured side forward.
"I was the ill-humoured, boisterous man in Scotch attire last night.
There Percy's wild mirth and eloquent descriptions partly banished my ill-humour, but as I neared London all my fancied evils returned to me again.
